Watch: US Submarine Sinks Iranian Warship By Torpedo, A First Since World War II

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced during a Wednesday press briefing that a U.S. Navy submarine fired a single Mark 48 torpedo to sink an Iranian warship. This strike marks the first enemy vessel sunk by a U.S. submarine torpedo since World War II, delivering what he called a "quiet death" to a ship that now lies on the bottom of the ocean.
"An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters," Hegseth told reporters. "Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War Two. Like in that war, back when we were still the War Department. We are fighting to win."
A 20-second video clip posted to X by the Department of War shares Hegseth's historic claim and appears to show the ship he was referencing.
A follow-up post shows an image of the strike as well as one of the ship well on its way to becoming an artificial reef.

(The lower image is a screenshot of the video of the ship being stuck. Watch the video at the link.)

https://x.com/DeptofWar/status/2029203986314919960

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, who had joined Hegseth at the briefing, said the Iranian ship was "effectively neutralized" in a Navy "fast attack" using a single torpedo.
Amazing. One can only view that video in sheer awe of the power, precision, and effectiveness of the US Navy strike. We've been subjected far too long to images contrary to that power—an Air Force jet departing Afghanistan while desperate people are dangling off of it, Iranian forces making sailors kneel with their hands behind their heads, etc.—that it is nice to be reminded that our fighting forces, under competent leadership, are the most lethal on the planet.
Adding a layer of symbolism to the decimation of the Iranian navy, Hegseth said the U.S. Navy sank the Iranian warship the Soleimani.
"The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated. Pick your adjective," the War Secretary reported. "In fact, last night we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like POTUS got him twice. Their navy, not a factor. Pick your adjective. It is no more."

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